Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-03-16
FlENDS AND FIRES.
upusrRrAL SCHOOL AND AGEIoUL-
TURAL COLLEGE.
Veterans Of the North Btate-The Indian
Fund-Pirs at Lumberton-
Other Topics.
special telegram 70 Tho Dispatch-l

night the deputy sheriff and two other
men arrived here from Oxford with
Albert Taber (colored), whom they
placed in Wake Jail for .safekeeplnS,
len days ago this negro unprecedented
the husband OF an estimable lady NJ
Oxford and attempted to commit an
assault. The lady identified him. lie
YVES captured and tried yesterday.
There were threats Of lynching. me
negroes, ii is said, made threats that II
1aber was hurt they would burn the
town.
There was a fire at Lumberton Sun
day morning which burned two blocks
of the best part of the town. In all
forty-six buildings were burned. The
total loss is $40, 900 insurance, ST.
eco. The merchants burned out were
n. II. Jones, J. II. Caldwell, Jenkins
& Williams, Il. Nj. Davis, DIR. j. ID.
Mcmillan, J. w. Hartman, A. A.
Nathan, s. A. Edmunds, Caldwell &
Carlyle, A. G. Melke, S. L. Freeman,
]. Ii. Redmond, and Leak & Edmunds.
At Wilmington Sunday there was
also fire which burned the bar room,
grocery, and neutrality-suspicious.
store belonging to j. L. Lee, j. A.
Clark, and +. Taylor. Total loss,
g, 900 insurance, $1,000.
Governor Scales leaves tomorrow Tor
Nashville, n. c., having accepted an
invitation to attend the railway cele-
bration there Thursday.
John Russ. the oldest resident OF
Brunswick county, isdead; aged ninety
seven. He was a soldier in the war OF
1912.
As Robert Williams, young white
man, who is printer in the Necs ana
Obserrcr office here, was hunting
robins, bis gun exploded, blowing off
his left hand. His arm was amputated..
So great was the loss Of blood that Will
liams will probably die.
AN ARPEAL FOR AID.
The careless and needless Legislature
ignored Governor Scalos's request for
an appropriation of 1920 per annum for
each of the six North Carolina soldiers
so kindly cared for by the Soldiers
Home at Richmond. The money 's to
he raised by private subscription, and
ought to be forthcoming at once.
FANNY DAVENPORT.
This widely-known and popular &C.
iress is expected herein q few days, and
will probably spend a week here with
her mother, who is passing the winter
in this city. Miss Davenport's niece is
also attending one OF Raleigh's excel
lent female schools.
TIRE INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL.
The work of organization of this
school (which by the new act is COM
bined with the Agricultural College,
the institution having the name of the
North Carolina College of Agriculture
and the Mechanic Arts, is expected to
begin next month. The first Tuesday
in April the Board of Agriculture and
the five trustees of the college will hold
their first meeting-a joint one. The
trustees are Messrs. Primrose, OF Ra-
leigh Fries, of Salem +; Barringer, of
Charlotte Carr, of Edgecombe coun-
ty, and French, of Wilmington. The
plans for the establishment of the
school will at the April meeting be
formulated. Messrs. Primrose and
Fries will in few days leave here on
tour Of inspection, in which they will
examine several OF the more prominent
and successful colleges of this charac-
ter They will give the joint meeting
| the result of their observations. The
college is to be managed by the joint
board.
SALE or BONDS.
The debt due the Indian fund for
North Carolina railroad 6 per cent.
construction bonds (Which il has
held for years and for which the United
States demanded a cash settlement)
will be cancelled Immediately, it is I'M
derstood. A prominent official has
gone North to make the necessary ar
rancements. A sufficient quantity OF
4 per cent. bonds will be sold to meet
the debt, and the per cent. bonds SO
taken in will be cancelled.
VARIOUS NEWS ITEMS.
II is learned that there will be at
| least % regiment of troops from this
| State at the national drill, and it may
be formed into provisional regi-
| ment.
The Holiness Bvangelists have sub
sided here since Mayor Dodd's order
that they shall not hold street services.
Their conduct of taking jewelry from
neqro women and girls has greatly
stirred up the colored element.
| The water-works contractor promises
that Raleigh shall have water by May
10th, and saws that by June 18th the
system will be in full operation.
A cold wave came along last night,
and this morning there was quite q
sharp frost 1t has done no damage,
though most kinds of frlit-trees are in
full bloom.
Steps are to be taken at once to hold
a public meeting here in regard to the
extension of the railway from Nash
vile, the county-seat of Nash county,
TO Raleigh.
| Goswell, the man who was tried at
Marshall for killing his wife, was con-
yicted of manslaughter. He was
brought to the penitentiary yesterday
to serve the longest sentence the law
allows for that crime.
Official reports to the Department OF
Agriculture from the truck farmers
from Goldsboro' east show that their
vegetables, &c, look well and promise
early and excellent crops. The outlook
is very gratifying
Under the insurance law, as amended
by the Legislature, ''blanket " policies
can again be issued as was the case be-
fore 1885. The clause in the law OF
1886 requiring marks and numbers on
cotton, &c, was very troublesome.
Quite number Of new ire-insurance
companies are coming into the State,
the Secretary OF State reports. That
official acts as insurance commissioner
er-CUciO.